Connectivity issues: Linksys PC Card on ThinkPad 600[SOLVED]

[ISHAIM]

Hi,

I'm having connectivity issues with a Linksys EtherFast 10/100 PC Card version 2 when trying to do a Minimal installation on an IBM ThinkPad 600. I think it is a driver issue because of a number of things.

While I boot the "gentoo" kernel off the installation disk with the "dopcmcia" option and get an eth0 interface along with a DHCP assigned IP, outbound and inbound pings result in packet loss. I can access web sites, ping other machines, etc. but there is definitely packet loss, which prevents me from being able to download the stage3 and portage snapshot tarballs. While trying to download these tarballs or during any other transmissions, speeds reach a maximum of 1-2kbps, then slowly level off and hang at 0. Sometimes it starts back up again, but it never maintains a constant stream.

Here are some modules that show up in lsmod that are relevant AFAIK: pcnet_cs, 8390, pcmcia, yenta_socket, pcmcia_core

I have tried the same hardware with a different distribution to see if there were hardware issues and there were not. The hardware is capable of acceptable transmission speed. I am not sure if I should try a different driver than what is being defaulted to.

Thanks

SOLUTION: "modprobe pcnet_cs" loads the driver.

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[ISHAIM]

Embarassing ...
I had to explicitly load the pcnet_cs module with "modprobe pcnet_cs". I no longer have packet loss and can keep sustained transfer speeds. Problem solved.